A periodic table of awesome

Life Magazine produced this artistic periodic table in 1949 in an issue dedicated to the atom. (H/T to Science Punk on ScienceBlogs.com for image)

I may be wrong, but there are few things that nerds delight in as much as the periodic table. There’s the first glance in which it looks horribly complicated but then upon second, and third, and further viewings, it has a wonderful order and reason to it all.

Plus, if you can name all the elements on it, then your brainiac quotient is high. So to help you in that quest are the folks at AsapSCIENCE, who posted a video naming all the elements on the periodic table in order to a “Can Can” tune. Enjoy.